We did a series of workshops in collaboration with artist Erin O’Brien and housing complexes: KYCC and Esperanza. The model of the workshop invites people to explore their own heritage in terms of food as a stepping-stone for meeting and connecting with new people in their housing complex. The outcomes of both workshops were documented in a Cookbook: The Curiously Menlonian Cookbook.

The book presentation came together alongside a communal lunch planned and curated by Los Hopper and Erin O’Brien at the Los Angeles Music Center in Downtown L.A. Through a public commensal experience, with food as our medium, we explored how best to describe what it means to be an Angeleno.